You Can Reduce stress & generate emotional well-being Quickly with Acupuncture & Essential Oils!

Are you tired of feeling stressed, anxious, worried, depressed or overwhelmed?

Is stress ruining your life?

• Are your relationships suffering?
• Is your work life or career not what it should be?
• Is it affecting you physically with headaches, muscle tension, high blood pressure?
• Poor sleep patterns, Does it keep you awake at night?
• Digestive issues?

We know that stress has negative physical impacts on the body such as:

• Prevents or slows healing time
• Disrupts our immune system
• Inhibits good gut bacteria
• Depletes our bodies of nutrients
• Creates unhealthy inflammatory responses

quick tips on How you can release stress and feel your best:

• Go for a brisk walk, be sure to exercise regularly at least 3-5 times per week.  As a plus, you can rub peppermint essential oil onto your temples, or rub into sore muscles before or after exercise.
• Get Adequate fresh air and sunshine, at least 15-20 minutes per day.  Just for your information extra virgin coconut oil has natural SPF properties of 10, and lavender is a wonderful oil to blend with it for added soothing sensation to the skin.  Not mention lavender naturally helps ease feelings of tension.
• Take time each day for meditation at least 5-10 minutes.  Try yoga, or Tai-Chi.  Great essential oils to diffuse in the air or rub onto your temples and third eye (center between eyebrows) is arborvitae and frankincense.
• Start each day with gratitude and positive affirmations.  Lemon essential oil may help stop the negative self-talk.  Lemon oil is uplifting to the mind, and when applied on the base of the skull gives a sense of courage and hope.
• Use a daily planner to stay organized and on track.  This helps minimize overload, and feeling overwhelmed.  Many people are turning back to a written planner that allows you to plan both personal and work priorities.  Examples of planners are The Law of Attraction Planner or Passion Planner.  You might like to try peppermint, lemon, or melaleuca essential oils rubbed over the middle to outer edge of your right foot, and on the base of your skull, and temples.
• Eat a healthy balanced diet.  Rub diluted oregano and melaleuca oil on the bottoms of your feet for a cleansing feeling, and ginger and peppermint oil over your tummy to support digestion.
• Acupuncture can help to keep your Qi-energy balanced, improve circulation, balance hormones, and reduce stressful feelings.  Treatments are designed to build upon the next with a cumulative effect.  Each treatment is created with you in mind to help you move from where you are right now to where you’d like to be.

Are you ready for transformation?

• Stop feeling out of control, unorganized, irritated, short tempered, overwhelmed, or repressed without a sense of purpose!
• Instead feel refreshed, confident, vibrant & ready for the day every morning!
• Find passion, clarity and purpose with the ability to handle life stresses.
• Build up those relationships, find forgiveness, while feeling calm, collected, sure and confident.

What Will Happen if You Do Nothing?

• Loss of income due to time out from illness, poor immunity
• Loss of job from poor performance
• Loss of marriage and family, relationship breakup
• Poor heath with high cholesterol and blood pressure
• Feeling bad about your self, irritated, not fun to be around
• Low energy and poor body function because vital nutrients are depleted
• Chronic pain issues from inflammation, tension and poor circulation of vital Qi-energy and blood.

You can Stress Less & Feel Your Best using Acupuncture and Essential Oils

The series of treatments provided addresses and balances each of the vital areas related to our constitutional emotions, spirit and well-being.  The most basic constitutional emotions we all feel are anger, joy, sympathy, grief, and fear.  The five essentials of well-being are Career-Purpose & Passion, Social & Family-Love & Relationships, Helping Others-Community & Accomplishments, Spiritual-Inspiration & Faith, and Financial-Security & Confidence. Also, sexual, physical, and mental-emotional health.  

You don’t have to understand how each of these are related to your organ-meridian systems, but I think you may get the idea if you imagine how you feel when you are angry.  You hold your breath, clench your jaw, and shout at someone!  Your shoulders and chest rises, your breath is shallow, your eyes feel full, your face may even become red as you blow your top!  Imagine if you feel that way all of the time even without an appropriate trigger, what does that feel like?

With an emotional imbalance in even one area there is obstruction of the flow of Qi-energy that disrupts a healthy emotional cycle, dysfunctional emotional response, distressed feelings, and is a cause of physical disease as well as a symptom of poor organ function.  

Schedule your appointment online or contact Dr. Michele Arnold 

Initial Consultation and Treatment 60 minutes.  $130

Subsequent visits may be 30-45 minutes.

Package of Four treatments $340. This level of sustained care and healing will make an incredible impact on your well-being. Two sessions per week for the first 2 weeks, then 4-6 weeks of weekly and then bi-weekly sessions.  Each visit builds upon the next in a sequential manner.  This is why I require a commitment from you for at least 4 sessions after the initial exam and acupuncture.

Individual treatments at $95 are available once we have changed the level of care needed to wellness care for sustained results. Typical sessions are scheduled bi-weekly or monthly.  You still have the option to purchase the discounted package of 4 at $340.00 as long as you come in once per month. Otherwise, purchase one at a time.

Michele Arnold-Pirtle is a Doctor of Acupuncture & Chinese Medicine (DACM).  She  has specialized in stress relief, emotional well-being, and balanced Chinese Medicine dietary therapy for over 16 years. 

As an expert in essential oils, Dr. Michele can help you safely  & confidently use essential oils in your own home for everyday life for you and your family.

Schedule your appointment to order and learn how to use essential oils for your own home.

FAQ: Do you take insurance?  No, I don’t take insurance because it is not holistic, and does not support the level of care and expertise that I want to provide.  Although, I do take FSA or FSA cards, and I can provide you with an invoice for your HR Department if it’s asked for.

This is For all new patients or established patients wish to experience the Stress Less, Feel Your Best with Acupuncture & Essential Oils.

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Should I Take Turmeric?

Have you been wondering about whether or not you should take Turmeric because it was recommended by your doctor, or you have seen it advertised?  I find this a bit annoying because it is indiscriminately recommended for everyone.  So, let’s look at what it’s for.

Turmeric is an Indian spice and can be used as an herbal supplement.  It contains Curcumin, the primary chemical constituent that gives it its anti-inflammatory properties along with its yellow color.  It widely used as one of the spices in curry powder.  It has become very popular, and is widely recommended as a dietary aid for inflammation and pain.  Some people have questions about it, and they wonder whether or not they should be taking it.  It may help if I break down its uses, and clarify when it wouldn’t be appropriate for someone to take it.

In Chinese Medicine this herb is called Jiang Huang (Turmeric).  Its flavors are spicy, bitter, and has an energetic warming affect on the body.

This herb helps blood circulation, and breaks up coagulation that may be the cause of pain related to traumatic injury, and it helps speed healing.  It moves Qi-energy of the liver, which means that it protects the liver from toxins, has antioxidant qualities, lowers cholesterol, reduces menstrual pain, and  decongests the liver.  The bitter and warming qualities improves joint swelling, shrinks uterine tumors, dissolves gallstones, and improves ligament flexibility.    Dosage as a single herb is 1/4 to 1/2 tsp. daily.  It is best when taken along with cinnamon bark (Rou Gui) or cinnamon twig (Gui Zhi) for dysmenorrhea, or joint pain such as in the shoulders.  It is usually added as an adjunct herb to enhance effects for relieving menstrual pain in an herbal formula such as Bupleurum and Dang Gui (Xiao Yao Wan) for instance.

This herb is not for you if you have blood deficiency without stagnant Qi-energy or blood stasis.  This means you don’t experience localized pain of a deep, sharp and piercing nature and inflammation that is worse at night, that is swollen, or you don’t have palpable solid, immobile masses, dark complexion, purple lips, fragile dry hair and skin, a purple tongue with purple spots.  If you feel weak, exhausted, have a pale complexion, experience light thin menstrual blood flow during your periods, dizziness, pale tongue or conjunctiva this herb is not for you.  Use caution if you are taking an anti-coagulant, anti-platelet medication.

I hope this helps?

*How Herbs are Prescribed in Chinese Medicine

*Let me start by saying that using herbs and spices in your cooking for flavoring is not necessarily the same thing as taking them as an herbal supplement.  Although, there may be some dietary value, there is not necessarily a therapeutic value that comes with potency and dosage. The spices and herbs found in your spice isle of the supermarket are going to be of a different quality, grade, and concentration than that found in an herbal tea or supplement.  Chinese Herbalists use high quality pharmaceutical grade herbs with high potency and bio-availability along with correct species identification.  The dosage matters as well.  In addition, herbs aren’t typically given singly, they are compounded together in a balanced formula that may include anywhere from two to ten or more herbs.  This way each herb works in a synergistic manner, and counteracts any negative affects.  This is much safer than taking only one ingredient long term.  As an example, you will find quite often that fresh ginger (Sheng Jiang), honey-fried licorice (Zhi Gan Cao), and red dates (Da Zao) are added to formulas to protect your stomach, and to harmonize all of the ingredients together.  Chinese Angelica Root (Dang Gui) is often combined with Ligusticum (Chuan Xiong), and White Peony (Bai Shao) to nourish blood, regulate the movement of blood, and sooth PMS symptoms and pain without causing too much thinning of blood, hemorrhage, or blood stasis and coagulation.  The flavors of bitter, sweet, spicy, salty, or sour as well as the energetic temperature of hot, warm, cooling, cold, have beneficial qualities on the body.  The herb’s flavors and temperature are taken into consideration when choosing an appropriate herbal remedy per one’s constitution.  Curcumin (Yu Jin) is spicy, bitter and cooling on the body.  Thus, it may not be for everyone.  You would need to consult with an expert herbalist that can evaluate your constitutional pattern of disharmony and recommend an appropriate herbal formula.

I Help Busy Professional Men And Women, Moms, And Grandmas, Like You,

Reduce Your Stress, So You Can Feel More Passion, Purpose, And Joy In Your Life!

Release Stress For Busy Men And Women.

Is stress ruining your life? Are your relationships suffering, is your work life not what it should be? Is it affecting you physically with headaches, muscle tension, high blood pressure, digestive issues?  Does it keep you awake at night?

• Stop feeling out of control, unorganized, irritated, short tempered, overwhelmed, or repressed without a sense of purpose!
• Instead feel refreshed, confident, vibrant & ready for the day every morning!
• Find passion, clarity and purpose with the ability to handle life stresses.
• Build up those relationships, find forgiveness, while feeling calm, collected, sure and confident.

The Acupuncture Stress Less Feel Your Best Program is specific for your needs using Acupuncture and Essential Oils

Initial Consultation and Treatment $130

Subsequent visits $95

Package of Four treatments $340. This level of sustained care and healing will make an incredible impact on your well-being. Two sessions per week for the first 2 weeks, then 4-6 weeks of weekly and bi-weekly sessions.

*Do I accept insurance?  No, but I will supply you with a super bill for your FSA or HSA account if needed.

We all have stress. Stress at work, stress at home, stress, stress, stress. And most of us know how harmful chronic stress can be to our bodies and minds. Stress can cause us to be fatigued, irritable, sad, restless, anxious and unmotivated. It can also lead to detrimental habits like smoking, drinking, drug usage and overeating.

What if you could combat and alleviate stress in 10 minutes or less? Your body, family, friends and co-workers would probably thank you. So, let’s explore three easy ways to fight off everyday stress.  Here are some great tips! continue reading »

13 Habits for Good Health

General Philosophy of Chinese Medicine and Healthy Eating

-Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) meals focus on whole plant foods including vegetables, beans, sea vegetables, rice, millet, and other grains, with smaller amounts of animal foods such as meat, poultry, and fish than the typical American diet.

-Animal products, fats, oils, are considered concentrated foods; so, although, individual needs vary for animal products, it generally takes a smaller amount than plant foods for balanced health.

There are some General Food Rules for Balanced Health for all constitutional types and patterns of imbalance.  These guidelines help to Balance and prevent the signs of weak, damp spleen-pancreas Qi and poor digestion.  Spleen-pancreas Qi is explained further below.

-Most food in TCM can be used therapeutically depending on quantity (dose dependent), quality, season, and needs of the person.  This even includes coffee and chocolate.

-When out of balance, or when a pattern of disharmony is present, Chinese Medicine (TCM) emphasizes specific foods and restricts others to balance the organs and pattern of disharmony contributing to signs of discomfort and disease.

First, it is imperative to understand what healthy digestion is before any guidelines can make sense.

-Good Digestion is Good Spleen-Pancreas Qi, it

Requires appropriate food choices for one’s individual body pattern.  Each person may differ in physical needs, mental, emotional tendencies; we each respond differently to foods.

Foods we think are good for us can lead to digestive and other health problems if we are unable to assimilate them properly.

Good habits to engender good digestion and spleen Qi:  for Balanced Health for all constitutional types and patterns of imbalance.  These guidelines help to Balance and prevent the signs of weak, damp spleen-pancreas Qi and poor digestion.  These are good habits and foods to eat regularly.

             Follow the 80/20 rule, ALWAYS!

1. Fill your plate with 80% greens and vegetables, 20% proteins and good fats.
2. Stop eating when you’re 80% full.
3. Eat 3 regular meals each day; develop a routine with 25% food intake at breakfast, 50% at lunch, and 25% at dinner.
4. Take time out for relaxation
5. Enjoy meals in a calm state, don’t eat standing up or while working or reading.
6. Chew food thoroughly, eat slowly, it takes 20 min. for your stomach to know it’s full.
7. Choose foods appropriate for your constitution
8. Most meals should be warm
9. Most meals should provide a balance of 5 flavors or tastes, sour, bitter, sweet/bland, spicy/pungent, salty, and vary the types of foods you eat; 20% each.
10. Most meals should provide a balance of 5 colors, reds, yellow-oranges, greens, purple-dark, white-tan; 20% each.
11. Meals should leave you feeling satisfied but not full. 80/20 rule
12. Regular sleep patterns
13. Regular exercise, at least 3-5 times per week.